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  • I’ve been running Sailfish for two months now on a secondary device.

    There are native clients for both Signal and HomeAssistant. I don’t use HA myself, so I can’t comment on how well Quartermaster works, but I haven’t run into any (major) issues with Whisperfish.

    As for general impressions: SailfishOS feels like the best mobile OS … of the year 2013. There are a lot of aspects where it was ahead of the other systems back then. For example with the gesture based navigation. But the other systems have caught up in that regard. And then there are the aspects where Sailfish was perfectly average back then. For example how you grant rights to apps (all requested at once, on first launch) or how the emoji keyboard works (like a different language). Design decisions like that aren’t deal breakers by any means, you can learn to live with them and work around them if necessary, but they give the OS a slightly dated feel.






  • It sort of depends on how your team uses Slack.

    The closest thing you’re going to get is Mattermost. Mattermost is not European, but it’s open source and self hostable. There are multiple managed hosters out there who will sell you an instance for as little as €30 per month.

    Homepage: https://mattermost.com/

    Example of a manged hoster: https://www.wnm-systems.de/server/mattermost-server/ (This one’s based in Germany, but I’m sure you can figure the website out)

    Another alternative is Rocketchat. Same deal as before, but hosting starts at €20.

    Homepage: https://www.rocket.chat/

    Example of a manged hoster: https://qutic.com/de/loesungen/rocket-chat-hosting/ (also German. I swear, I’m not doing this on purpose, these where just the first ones my search turned up)

    The solution you should probably pick is Matrix with Cinny. It’s a federated service, so you have to pick a server. Also, adding a second device to your account is a bit more complicated, but nothing you or your group can’t figure out (you have to compare emojis between the devices for the keys to sync). Lastly, there is no (voice or video) calling. It’s on the roadmap and other matrix clients (such as element or commet) have it, but cinny doesn’t.

    Homepage of the client: https://cinny.in/
















  • Qobuz at least has adopted a clear stance on AI use this month: https://community.qobuz.com/ai-charter

    We are strongly committed to fighting fraud and apply a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to AI-generated content and AI-driven streaming activities. Our measures include:

    • Detection and monitoring systems for AI-generated content (in development) and fraudulent streaming patterns (effective)
    • Right to remove fraudulent catalogs when issues are identified

    So maybe give them a couple of months to roll out their promised tech. If this charter turns out to be all talk then fuck’em but right now it’s (in my opinion) to early to tell




  • No it’s not. The title of the article is “Israel Quietly Backs New Gaza Militias Fighting Hamas” (emphasis by me). You might say that that’s a distinction without difference, but I think it matters on multiple counts:

    1. The term “Zionist” refers to people holding a certain set of beliefs. The group therefore contains more members than the government. Which Zionists are backing the group? The original headline answered the question, the new one does not.
    2. Using the term “Zionist” instead of “Israel” implies a motivation for the actions of the government not present in the original title. The new headline misrepresents the reporting it links to. We are talking about the Wall Street Journal here. Do you really think the would argue that the Israeli government funds Arab militias because of Zionism?














  • It’s somewhere inbetween. For the most part you have a standard Linux userland. The packaging format for example is just RPM. But the shells compositor can currently only properly display Android and qt apps. There has been some discussion at the last community meeting (where the devs answer questions) about improved Wayland support to change that, but that’s where we are.

    Furtermore, for drivers and the like some Android blobs are used. There are therefore some Sailfish specific apis that you need to target for some of the functionality.